On 2005-01-29, Darkwvlf <darkwvlf@isp.com> wrote:> This is the deck I'm looking into playing this EXT season tell me what you> think

I wish I could help. I don't have much Extended experience, but am hoping toplay for the first time in one of the extended tournaments this season. I like the Burning Wish + Cranial idea, especially, since I only have oneextraction I was thinking of running some sort of Goblin deck, since I have most of thecards I need, and only need to pick up a couple others, like the wish.

I admit, I'm a little lost on your win condition. Is it to steal one of theirdead creatures and beat them over the head with it? Firebolts for the lastdamage? You can't wish in the Beacon. If you find you've got a lot of manaby the mid-late game (which you'll likely be around to have) you could side aFireball or a Kaervekâ€™s Torch. Wish for it, and then send it to their head.

That's my kind of deck, actually; I like it. Wish I had those Tutors...

The Win condition is actually Haunting Echoes the back up is stealingcreatures. You kill everything they play, make them discard into a HUGE GYand then echoes them, essentially decking them to the point that they cantrecover. It is one of the most brutal ways to die in Magic.

Most of the popular decks this season should be creature based and I knowfor a fact that this deck performs very well against creature based deck andfairs pretty well against the other control decks.

Also, you could use Firebolt and Beacon of Destruction and Earthquake. Youcan hard cast all of these for DMG. With recoup you can recast earthquakefor X1RR (1R for recoup XR for earthquake), and give Firebolt a newflashback cost of 1RR (1R for recoup R for Firebolt) and the Beacon iswishable with Burning Wish. Also you could wish up Rude Awakening and swingin with 10 Lands to kill (makes your lands 2/2 and untaps them for 6GG).

I changed the MD and SB a little and will take about the changes.here is the new list.

First thing I did was put the Terminates in the MD instead of side and tookout the Chainer's Edict and the one Genesis, the were unnecessary and Ithink Terminate will give me way better spot removal for things like VerdantForce and X Angels and Blistering Firecats. Having that instant speed helpsa lot. and losing the edicts only cut me back 3 sorcery's for recoup tricksthere are still 20 other sorceries in the deck to flashback so it wasn't abig loss. Also I reworked the mana base. I sat down and did the percentagesbehind the deck and analyzed the mana base and it is well way skewed red inthe previous version so I scaled it back a little added more black andlowered the over all green mana access because I took out genesis. Now it isslightly more heavily skewed black then red and should make the probabilityof having what I need colour wise when i need it.

In the SB i replaced the Terminate with Pyroclasm because it is anotherwishable target along with a good board sweeper against things like WW andRDW mana accel things BoP, also good against the random Cephalid Illusionist(Angry Ghoul deck). I am considering some other change to the board to helpdeal with control and combo (Scepter Chant and Mind's Desire) matchupsnamely more discard options but i have to think about this for some time.

If you want i can kinda make a run down and links to what i am expecting tofind in the extended season and the reasons behind my card choices. let meknow about this.

On 2005-02-04, Darkwvlf <darkwvlf@isp.com> wrote:> Most of the popular decks this season should be creature based and I know> for a fact that this deck performs very well against creature based deck and> fairs pretty well against the other control decks.

I see. That's a good one; I hadn't seen Haunting Echoes before. It wouldwork well against my goblins, since I'd likely be tutoring different ones withthe Matron.